Re: xfig and mwm problems ...

["B. Marchand" <marchand at purdue dot edu>]

> The man has a point: 

woman ;-)

> I just tried to duplicate the problem and succeeded in duplicating the 
> problem :)


Yes! Thank you. It's good to know that I'm not the only one with the 
problem.

> Okay, the reason this problem exists is due to the stupid VendorShell 
> that is used by Xt. LessTif overrides VendorShell with its own and we 
> had to write a hack to make this work on Cygwin/X.
>
> Unfortunately, Xaw3d also overrides the VendorShell with its own 
> version. However, it appears that I got a little too busy right around 
> the time that I was going to release a patched Xaw3d library... I have 
> the updated version built in my local tree, but I never finished 
> testing it or releasing it. :) I just tested the fix and it solves 
> your problem.
>
> Thanks for putting up with a forgetful developer... 

Thank you for taking the time to look into this. Your efforts are 
greatly appreciated.

--B.

> I had this email all typed up, explaing how there might be a problem 
> since Xaw3d and LessTif both override the VendorShell. Then I thought 
> that I had better confirm that Xaw3d had actually been released with 
> that fix; it hadn't, so I had to rewrite the whole email. :)
>
> Xaw3d-1.5D-5 is coming soon to a mirror near you and will fix your 
> problem with xfig and mwm.
>
> Harold